#drt asks

[valfeathers]

Long-Term Art Challenge: All 19 of the 108 Togami siblings who were actually described on-page.

i am SO glad you said that, actually, because i've been looking for a reason to sibling post for a while now & now i can! now it's just a matter of finding the motivation to freshen up their designs a bit

[valfeathers]

What do you think of Ink's other siblings during the Legacy Crown Championship? Like Saburo, Yusuke, Asagao, etc. Which did you like, dislike or thought had more potential?

Now this, this right here is the question i've been waiting for!

Little known fact about me but, i have actually done beta designs for each and every one of the siblings ((that we know of)) and hell, i've even started to design their mothers as well. I've grown quite attached to my interpretations of them and in my opinion they all had so much potential. The fact that a handful of them had jobs and/or shsl talents is so fascinating to me but i digress.

each of them has their own merits and flaws but here's like a comprehensive list of the siblings i particularly liked

i'm irrevocably attached to asagao, ichirou and shirou, those three were so refreshingly nice and their deaths kinda stung more than i expected.

shirou wanting to be a musician?? ichirou trying to keep the kids safe and promising not to let anybody die?? asagao being unapologetically kind despite growing up where she did?? standout people, all of them, 10/10 deserved better

the asahiruyoru triplets were so cool in concept and they were,,, so mean??? loved them, girlbosses, all three of them.

eyumi has a special place in my heart too, i see her and can't Not imagine her being right in the middle of a goth phase

jirou was so fucking cool, i get attached to the hotheaded ones so easily. him literally spiralling into a breakdown after ichirou's death broke my heart.

wasuke trying and failing to body a 13 year old is hilarious to me, i have no idea what could have gone wrong there

and takaya,,, god what a straight up absolute bastard. i was Not expecting an arsonist but that's what we got.

so to summarise, every single one of them had so much potential and im bummed we didn't have more time to get to know them. i may post my designs/fanon interpretations of them if that's something people would be interested in seeing

[valfeathers]

What did happen to Blue Ink/Kudan actually at the end of the at by the way? I have read it so many times but can never get what precisely happens to her herself. I mean I know Byakuya takes an idiot pill and both sides agree to honour their agreements, but what actually happened to the Kudan?

that's the thing, i think they kind of left it up to interpretation? they did keep it vague

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the wiki says she's dead which is Actually heartbreaking for me on like a personal level but as to the How, i couldnt say for sure

i think the vibe generally is that she just went and Died somewhere which on its own would be fine (i mean, it's danganronpa) but the memories of her were literally erased. completely, just erased

ergo, everybody that knew her simply forgot about her existence and she completely vanished which is existentially horrifying and again, breaks my heart

but i have no idea about the specific details

[valfeathers]

What's your opinion on how the fates of Suzuhiko, Kazuya, Yuika and Hiroyuki. Would you change any of them or were they just fine for you?

I love some angst so most of these characters' tragic ends were a good read, however going into AU speak I did experiment with some changes.

Suzuhiko... Isn't surviving this rewrite. Alexa, play cell block tango. However the setting of his death is different since, no Syo. A principle change in Suzuhiko's role in the story is that while Byakuya, Shinobu, the Ketwins etc are all in Prague, Suzuhiko is in Japan with Satomi. So any intimidation is purely through manipulation and the only time that we see him near the Togami duo is in the flashbacks. Meaning that to showcase how manipulative he is, he is able to intimidate the two from the other end of the world. I'll elaborate in a future post. Meaning that he still dies in volume 3, however he gets offed in Japan rather than in Prague in front of Shinobu and Kazuya. And the person to deliver the final blow also changes.

Kazuya is 'lucky', since the dubious identity and Kudan semantics have been wiped, that would mean that Kazuya is Kazuya, and I had to decide on what to do with him. And after some deliberation I decided to let him get detained rather than kill him off. Because if you think about it, this man committed TREASON and misuses UN resources to chase down his siblings (especially in the adaptation I'm writing) and the consequences catch up to him. So he gets to live, but at what cost?

Hiroyuki has a much larger role in the story, as he delivers the biggest twist in the rewrite. Much like the original, he is the one to reveal Borges' faulty programming and begin to explain just how serious Ink's situation is, only to take a bullet to the face before he can elaborate. His death and the situation leading up to it stay relatively the same. With one principle change. When explaining everything to Ink in volume 3 he says that "I am your companion, I have been for a long time,"

WELL...

As I mentioned in a previous reply, Borges and the K2K system's effect is fundamentally different. In AU, the system eroded a hefty portion of Ink's memories including any real close relationships outside of her job. And so he still dies explaining that the eye must have malfunctioned, but we also tack in the monumental twist that Hiroyuki was Shinobu's closest friend before her memories were erased.

Sooo, dead best friend.

As for Yuika, I decided that I'm going to let her survive past the end of the series, so I removed her death entirely and had her be more of a driving force in volume 3 after her brother's death.

Taeko however isn't that lucky. She still dies however as I mentioned, Suzuhiko (who originally killed her) isn't in the same country as her so the who and the how change. In that one of the grunts that works under Suzuhiko is the one to deliver the final blow. More on Suzuhiko's men later.

[valfeathers]

Nice to see another DRT fan! Whose your favorite and least favorite members of the original cast?

If we're sticking to novel-exclusive characters I'd say shinobu is my favourite, hands down. I can't even articulate the love I feel for this character it is unreal. She's quickly climbed from a character that I only heard about in passing to one of my favourite characters in all of danganronpa, period.

As for least favourite, i feel like this is such an obvious answer but suzuhiko makes me SO incredibly uncomfortable on like a fundamental level so of course he claims the spot as my least favourite character. I also have a bone to pick with mr kijou togami but again, that's an obvious answer

[valfeathers]

Ever think about how the Weather triplets were ranked Bronze during the LCC? Shiro (who had no Ultimate or even Jr Ult. talent) somehow managed to be ranked higher than three Ultimates. Kinda makes you wonder about Kijo's standards. Yusuke being low makes sense given how washed-up he became, but the triplets were the most recent HPA Ultimates during the Championship. Does he not consider weather forecasting to be that impressive?

Honestly who could say. I don't think anyone could guess what goes through this man's head on any given day.

I'd assume that yeah, he just isn't a fan of weather forecasting?? Maybe he doesn't see the point of investing real effort into Being a weather forecaster, either way, AsaHiruYoru's rankings were lowered for,,, reasons?

My guess is that (and I'm near certain this is bought up in the books) they didn't really care about taking over the company and were planning on using the funds to broadcast their program on every channel forever so... Do with that what you will? Even though I'm not sure how he could have found that out, that's more of a theory as to why they're ranked lower than say, Shiro.

But again, knowing about that would require him to, you know, listen to his children and their goals which I don't think he's done once, ever. So maybe it's just botched.

[valfeathers]

I’m curious have you ever noticed the overlap of dr:togami and labb (main character gets doppleganger stalker with a sweet tooth who does horrible things while pretending to be them)?

anon i don’t think you know how special this ask is to me.

labb and drt themed ask almost 5 years after my first drt hyperfixation????

god i just pinched myself and checked what year it was

but to answer your question no i actually don’t think i ever made that connection! but thinking about it i cant believe it never even occurred to me. your brain….

now that you’ve put that in my head i don’t think i’ll ever unsee it

i although i have to admit the way i feel about bb and the way i feel about kazuya are wildly different

[valfeathers]

Do you ever headcanon any of the DRT Togami Family as LGBT?

as a matter of fact i do! i'll see if i can put out a longer post later on and elaborate but i'd say that pretty much all of the main cast are LGBTQ+ in some form